According to the apple store people, my iPod was dead (or at best on permanant life support). Long live my iPod, I euthenized it. So now I have a new one. In addition to a 30GB (black!) replacement, I also invested in some other more general computer hardware, such as a NAS RAID Box and a UPS. I've spent a good chunk of the day moving files across my poor 100Mbps hub to load up the NAS box.

Watched Evita tonight, since I had the soundtrack but had never seen it. Apparently I wasn't missing much -- the movie is just really bad lipsyncing all the way though.

It looks like I might actually get to fly my first cross-country solo tomorrow, from Palo Alto to Hollister to Modesto and back.